Machiko Hasegawa

On February 2, during his appearance on TV station BS Fuji, Vice Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroshige Seko disclosed that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked Kenji Goto on three separate occasions in September and October…

Liberal Democratic Party suffered from “Saga Shock” in January after the mayoral election of a new mayor for Saga Prefecture, which is known as the “Kingdom of Agriculture.” On January 11th, there was an election…

On January 26, The President Howard Hill of the National Pork Producers Council sent a letter to members of Congress urging them to approve reauthorization of Trade Promotion Authority. NPPC was very unhappy with the…

On January 24, a group called the “Organization for Judicial Review and Injunction of the TPP” held their official establishment meeting in Tokyo. The number of members has reached more than 2400 and from this…

Tokyo Shimbun reports that on January 24, during her speech in the meeting of the organization demands TPP’ judicial review in Tokyo, Professor Jane Kelsey at the University of Auckland in New Zealand said that…

Save Constitutional Japan was founded in 2014 by two Japanese scholars, Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University Yasuhiro Okuhira, a specialist in Constitutional Law, and Professor Jiro Yamaguchi, a political scientist at Hosei University. Since its…